The assistant for anyone navigating independent work.

Problem:

Everyone knows the gig economy is disrupting work, but few realize the actual impact it has had upon participants. Gig based service platforms are bottlenecked by legalities surrounding worker dissatisfaction and experience a lack of skilled on-demand staff during surges. Independent workers need a platform to easily understand how to best capitalize on their strengths and skills in order to achieve a fulfilling work-life balance.

Market opportunity:

● TAM: $4.5T Global Total Addressable Market for the Gig Economy (2020) 

● SAM: $1.7T U.S. Market Share 

● SOM: $5B (Gross Volume on digital gig platforms connecting freelance contract workers in the US.) 

● 65M+ US gig workers reported (2020) 

● 58M+ US based freelancers (2020) 

● By 2023, over 50% of all US working adults will be in the gig economy 

● 80% of all US corporations plan to switch to a flexible workforce by 2024

Timing:

- Independent work is here to stay 

- Prop 22 Fiasco (gig work companies required to fund healthcare subsidies) 

- Gig based service platforms are bottlenecked by legalities surrounding worker dissatisfaction and experience a lack of skilled on-demand staff during surges.

Company description:

Gigturbo is the platform empowering anyone navigating independent work to hit personal and financial goals.

It's a cross-service guide using natural language and a.i. to matchmake personalized work options based on member preferences. The recommendation engine taps into +300 work and learn platforms paired to scheduling optimization for a more productive day. Alongside productivity tools and finance management, Gigturbo provides members the ability to up-skill and level-up towards personal goals such as working towards an aspirational career, learning a new language, obtaining a hard skill or certification. 

The mission is to provide members with a simple, intuitive way to hit personal or financial goals while enabling them for the future of work based on lifestyle and life-stage. Through trust and transparency, Gigturbo will grow alongside the workforce of the future accessible wherever they need us (voice, chatbot, etc.) as their quintessential partner and agent.

Tech stack is lightweight — primarily text/voice based as an end solution with AI IP behind the time optimized career tracking models and NLP across the messenger based platform.

Traction:

- Partnered with over +25 strategic enterprise work and learn platforms (i.e. Uber, Instacart, Rover, Udacity, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, etc.) 

- 2022 HSA/IRA/IUL neobank fintech product supporting members with a top 3 payment issuer for national rollout (under NDA)

- Approved partner with over +1000 universities and colleges nationwide in the US to support new grads with gigs and career tracking

- Pilot revenues generated by supporting worker acquisition for enterprise gig work partners

Focus:

Geared at a future demographic (think late teens/early adults) responsibly earning and up-skilling online through coursework or classes while managing their independent careers and finances. They need to obtain various skills depending on their passions, which can be self-taught or via coursework and certifications to qualify for better opportunities or projects they can take on. We’re arming the workforce of the future by combining time management, education and finance tracking through one's own personal support guide. 

Team:

CEO/founder: Ali Sammour 

CPO/founder: Gowtham Sundar 

CTO: Luke Arrigoni

Team has founded startups with successful outcomes and acquisitions. Have scaled technical operations of +20 members to build publishing and distribution platforms for venture backed companies and enterprise clients (Omnicom, CAA) with AI/ML modeling.

As for community, we are representative of being 1st generation Americans as the offspring of immigrants alongside our product officer actually representing the target market we are focused on - young, bright future workforce participants independently navigating career paths through experiential learning. Our goal is to better empower those members looking to skill up and track their success based on the combined experiences of those we are serving - recent high school graduates and new college entrants that we've been surveying through our collegiate partnership program. 

We're specifically interested in supporting communities in the metropolitan cities and states that need the most support. The team has experienced the social differences in access to personalized support and learning in underserved communities across Los Angeles and Texas. We have a personal interest in supporting the success of individuals across these various communities through this support mechanism that enables social mobility to future generations willing to work towards their goals. 

Why our insight is unique and approach is different:

We're geared at a future demographic (think late teens/early adults) responsibly earning and up-skilling online through coursework or classes while managing their independent careers and finances. They need to obtain various skills depending on their passions which will look incredibly different these next 3/5/10 years.These new skills can be self-taught experientially or via a combination of coursework and certifications in order to qualify for better opportunities or projects to take on. We’re arming the workforce of the future by combining time management, education and finance tracking through one's own personal support guide. 

The tech stack is lightweight — primarily text/voice based as an end solution with AI IP behind the time optimized career tracking models and NLP across the messenger based platform.

The mission is to provide members with a simple, intuitive way to hit personal or financial goals while enabling them for the future of work based on lifestyle and life-stage. Through trust and transparency, Gigturbo will grow alongside the workforce of the future accessible wherever they need us (voice, chatbot, etc.) as their quintessential partner and agent.

We're geared at a future demographic (think late teens/early adults) responsibly earning and up-skilling online through coursework or classes while managing their independent careers and finances. They need to obtain various skills depending on their passions, which can be self-taught or via coursework and certifications to qualify for better opportunities or projects they can take on. We’re arming the workforce of the future by combining time management, education and finance tracking through one's own personal support guide. 

Our intention is to support the next billion people on the planet to live fulfilling and healthy lives through the independent work they want to do.  Ideally within the next 5 years!

NPS scores from members conducted via surveys.

Career tracking management and tools helping to gauge return on time investment and benefits provided via the platform.

Employment success and sustainability scores ranking member happiness and satisfaction at 6/12/18/24 months.

Our theory is that we can better equip members through the platform to obtain soft and hard skills through online learning to better enable them to take on better projects and jobs that focus on a career path of choice.

We measure this by the level of exposure or experience a member has in a particular field (ranked by them) and chart it against the amount of time needed to complete online coursework to get them to the appropriate level needed to qualify for a particular project or job. Immediate outcomes result from the jobs they take on and the amount they earn over the duration of a year from employment that we chart on annual earning averages by career path. 

Tech stack is lightweight — primarily text/voice based as an end solution with AI IP behind the time optimized career tracking models and NLP across the messenger based platform.

We use this to personalize the entire experience to the member where they can navigate and command their gigturbo assistant all via their mobile device.

Our team is excited for the opportunity to create a company of lasting value for generations to come. We the founders are first generation Americans fortunate enough to pay it forward and have diverse backgrounds ourselves (Arab American and Indian). This helps us relate and understand the growing pains involved with being the offspring of immigrants who migrated to America to create more opportunity. 

We hire from all backgrounds and seek out diversity from those we not only work with but serve considering our service is intended to help support social mobility and self-enablement when it comes to career improvement.

Business Model: Marketplace Network SaaS

B2B2C SaaS based revenue mechanisms covered by platform or employer.

●  (Today) - New Worker Referrals - ranging from $5-$100 per qualified lead by platform.

●  (Future) - Bid Fee Per Hour P($.27 to the hour) - time auditing and benefit payouts alongside surge demand for work support paid by employer.

We've raised outside venture investment capital, however the business model makes the platform self-sustainable within the first 18 months of scaling to the first 250,000 members based on revenue share.

The revenue streams are a SaaS fee paid by employers alongside a financial product that helps to optimize members earnings into savings that searches for grants or subsidies they qualify for. This enables us to capture service management fee's for the savings and investment account we provide them with.

Circled $1M USD from prominent future of work angel investors alongside Simplexity Ventures to scale the product to date.

In discussions to raise an additional $5M this year to scale the product nationwide.